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Murugiah with new foundation for Tamil schools

May 28th, 2008
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The new minister Murugiah announces something interesting – a foundation for tamil schools. Not to be confused with Tamil Foundation. The Tamil School Foundation (TSF)  will “look into the welfare and maintenance” of the 523 schools. Many questions arises from this statement:

– why are the public expected to use their money when its the responsibility of the government to “look into welfare and maintenance” of the schools? Unless of course, this is a supportive body and not meant to relieve the relevant bodies of their responsibilities

–  Would the foundation come under any particular authorities or be an NGO kind of entity?

– is it a registered body?

– Why not use existing channels like EWRF, Tamil Foundation, PTAs, Tamil School Headmasters Association, etc?

I guess we have to wait for more details, but hopefully it will answer the questions above. Of course, there’s still the question on who will handle the money. We’ll leave it for another day. » Read more: Murugiah with new foundation for Tamil schools

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Nazri reveal 10 percent scholarship quota

May 28th, 2008
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Alamak! Looks like Minister Nazri had unwittingly proven what parents and disgruntled Malaysians suspected all along. 10% quota allocation for normal Malaysians for PSD scholarships all this while. He clarified that 7282 students were shortlisted from 15220 (previously, PSD director gave a rough estimate of 7500 out of 15000 students).
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Cameron Highlands Day 2 at Farm, Tea Estate, and Mountain

May 28th, 2008
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After ending Day 1 on a happy note, we started the second day with a search for breakfast. Finally took noodles at a Chinese restaurant at Brinchang. Our first stop was the Big Red Strawberry Farm located at Brinchang town itself. Its near the Cactus Valley and across the road from the pasar malam site. This place was set up about 3 years ago, and it primarily exports salad to overseas markets. The also sell many kinds of flower plants. While were there, there were construction work to expand the area. According to one of the workers, lots of tourists visit this place. They plan to built a car park and more plantation area. The souvenirs are a bit expensive compared to other place, but the area is big and cooling.

 

Big Red Strawberry Farm

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PSD provide scholarship criteria

May 28th, 2008
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As the statistics continue to roll out about the PSD (JPA) scholarship recipients for overseas programme, PSD says only cream of crop were selected while news of unsuccessful angry applicants emerged. MIC had to go begging as usual. PSD head gave an interview regarding the selection criteria on NST recently. Full interview is found below. Let’s look at some pertinent points:

He clarified that the full scholarship offer is for local studies, which was actually quite clear in the newspaper reports. Maybe some parents misunderstood it.

The overseas programme is very competitive. The criteria is 70 points for academic excellence, 10 points for interview, 10 points for family economic background and 10 points for co-curricular activities.

The criteria for foreign studies scholarship is revealed, but the director also revealed that 15000 applications were received, out of which 7500 qualified. and out of 7500, only 2000 got it. That’s nearly 4 students (3.75 actually) fighting for one scholarship (3.75:1). And it seems there were 6262 straight A students. » Read more: PSD provide scholarship criteria

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MIC solves Bukit Raja estate workers problem

May 28th, 2008
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Samy likes to use “I” all the time. Its always about him. If he is not around, no more MIC. Samy is MIC. MIC is Samy. Anyways, congrats for solving this problem. Next election got little bit of hope now. Sime Darby also did not drag this for long, just 12 years.

A 12-year resettlement dispute between property developer and plantation giant, Sime Darby Bhd, and workers of Bukit Raja Estate in Klang, finally came to an end when both parties reached a settlement following the intervention of MIC.
MIC President Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said the workers had accepted the land offered by Sime Darby to build their homes.

“I met the representatives of the workers and Sime Darby yesterday and they agreed that the workers will be provided with their agreed choice of house on the land,” he said in a statement today. Samy Vellu said Sime Darby would soon issue offer letters to the workers.

Before the last general election, Samy Vellu said he and Putera Umno chief Datuk Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim visited the estate following complaints that the Bukit Raja Tamil School was without a playground.  I requested Sime Darby to allocate a two-acre (0.8ha) land to build the playground and a two-storey building for the school,” he said. “I also asked the company to hand over the land where the school is currently located to the Education Ministry for the school to be converted into a fully-aided school.

“All the requests were agreed to by Sime Darby but the housing problem was not solved as the estate workers did not want to accept the land offered by the company. “But now the housing issue has been resolved and I urge the workers to cooperate with Sime Darby,” he added.

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